Strong's Hebrew: 663. אֲפֵק (Apheq) -- perhaps "fortress," the name of several places in Palestine

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Apheq: perhaps "fortress," the name of several places in Palestine

Original Word: אֲפֵק
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Apheq
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ake')
Short Definition: Aphek

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from aphaq
Definition
perhaps "fortress," the name of several places in Pal.
NASB Translation
Aphek (8), Aphik (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲפֵק אֲפִיק (Judges 1:31) proper name, of a location Aphek (perhaps enclosure, or fortress). **now probable that 1 should include Joshua 12:18; 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 29:1 and 2 Kings 13:22: ᵐ5L; town not near Jezreel, but at north end of philistine plain; compare ᵐ5L^i. with We^{compare 254} Dr^{1Sam 29:11} RS^{OTJC 2.435} GASm^{Geogr. 400 f.} Buhl^{Geogr. 212} (and N.) Bu^{RS 235 f.}; more doubtful are 1 Kings 20:26; 1 Kings 20:30; 2 Kings 13:17 (Kit 1 Kings 20:26); these, with Joshua 19:30; Judges 1:31, might denote an Aphek near Jezreel.

1 city near Jezreel (Assyrian Ap‡u, compare Dl^{Pa 287}) Joshua 12:18; 1 Samuel 29:1 (אֲפֵ֑קָה, so) 1 Kings 20:26,30 compare 2 Kings 13:7

2 city in tribe of Asher Joshua 19:30; Judges 1:31 (אֲפִיק).

3 city northeast of Beirût, modern Afqa Joshua 13:4 אֲפֵ֑קָת see Di.

4 place near Mizpah 1 Samuel 4:1 (compare 1 Samuel 7:12).

Strong's

Aphek, Aphik

Or raphiyq {af-eek'}; from 'aphaq (in the sense of strength); fortress; Aphek (or Aphik), the name of three places in Palestine -- Aphek, Aphik.

see HEBREW 'aphaq